SculptureGreek2nd-1st century BCE

Head of a Hellenistic Ruler

c. 150 BCE-50 BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Marble from the Greek islands or Western Asia Minor

Culture

Greek

Period

Hellenistic period

Century

2nd-1st century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

10 cm (3 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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